Story Highlights

Breaking Bad isn't the only AMC series in which good people do bad things.

Low Winter Sun, adapted from a British series, centers on a pair of corrupt Detroit cops with underworld ties. They murder one of their own in the pilot episode, which follows the final-season premiere of Bad on Aug. 11; the reasons why and the aftershocks are revealed through the 10-installment season.

Mark Strong, who also played the same role in the 2006 two-part series, says he relished re-creating the role. "The idea you can resurrect a character seven years later and move it from Edinburgh to Detroit is too great an opportunity to pass by." He and his co-star Lennie James (The Walking Dead, Jericho) are both British, and executive producer Chris Mundy calls the set "this strange little British theater group" plunked down in Detroit, where the 10-episode season is being filmed on location.

"It's a crime drama and it's about the shared humanity between criminals and cops in Detroit," Mundy says.

The pair has a complicated, sometimes violent relationship, as an internal-affairs investigation into the murder boils over into back-stabbing and secret-keeping. "We're trying to unsolve a case; we're not trying to solve one," James says.

AMC Friday picked up two period dramas to join its lineup, which will see Bad end this fall and Mad Men wrap up next year. Halt & Catch Fire stars Lee Pace as a 1980s PC wizard, and Turn is about 1778 farmers turned spies.